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Structures and Architecture. A Viable Urban Perspective?

Author : Marie Frier Hvejsel
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000786102
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Structures and Architecture. A Viable Urban Perspective? written by Marie Frier Hvejsel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structures and Architecture. A Viable Urban Perspective? contains extended abstracts of the research papers and prototype submissions presented at the Fifth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2022, Aalborg, Denmark, 6-8 July 2022). The book (578 pages) also includes a USB with the full texts of the papers (1448 pages). The contributions on creative and scientific aspects in the conception and construction of structures as architecture, and on the role of advanced digital-, industrial- and craft -based technologies in this matter represent a critical blend of scientific, technical, and practical novelties in both fields. Hence, as part of the proceedings series Structures and Architecture, the volume adds to a continuous exploration and development of the synergetic potentials of the fields of Structures and Architecture. With each volume further challenging the conditions, problems, and potentials related to the art, practice, and theory of teaching, researching, designing, and building structures as vehicles towards a viable architecture of the urban environment. The volumes of the series appear once every three years, in tandem with the conferences organized by the International Association of Structures and Architecture and are intended for a global readership of researchers, practitioners, and students, including architects, structural and construction engineers, builders and building consultants, constructors, material suppliers, planners, urban designers, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, artists, product manufacturers, and other professionals involved in the design and realization of architectural, structural, and infrastructural projects.

Introducing Architectural Tectonics

Author : Chad Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317564049
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Architectural Tectonics written by Chad Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the relationships formed between design, construction, and space while creating or experiencing a work of architecture. In this text, author Chad Schwartz presents an introductory investigation into tectonic theory, subdividing it into distinct concepts in order to make it accessible to beginning and advanced students alike. The book centers on the tectonic analysis of twenty contemporary works of architecture located in eleven countries including Germany, Italy, United States, Chile, Japan, Bangladesh, Spain, and Australia and designed by such notable architects as Tadao Ando, Herzog & de Meuron, Kengo Kuma, Olson Kundig, and Peter Zumthor. Although similarities do exist between the projects, their distinctly different characteristics – location and climate, context, size, program, construction methods – and range of interpretations of tectonic expression provide the most significant lessons of the book, helping you to understand tectonic theory. Written in clear, accessible language, these investigations examine the poetic creation of architecture, showing you lessons and concepts that you can integrate into your own work, whether studying in a university classroom or practicing in a professional office.

The Tectonics of North America

Author : Philip B. King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Tectonics of North America written by Philip B. King and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders

Author : Paulo J.S. Cruz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351858157
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders by : Paulo J.S. Cruz

Download or read book Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders written by Paulo J.S. Cruz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structures and Architecture – Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders contains the lectures and papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2019) that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2019. It also contains a multimedia device with the full texts of the lectures presented at the conference, including the 5 keynote lectures, and almost 150 selected contributions. The contributions on creative and scientific aspects in the conception and construction of structures, on advanced technologies and on complex architectural and structural applications represent a fine blend of scientific, technical and practical novelties in both fields. ICSA2019 covered all major aspects of structures and architecture, including: building envelopes/façades; comprehension of complex forms; computer and experimental methods; futuristic structures; concrete and masonry structures; educating architects and structural engineers; emerging technologies; glass structures; innovative architectural and structural design; lightweight and membrane structures; special structures; steel and composite structures; structural design challenges; tall buildings; the borderline between architecture and structural engineering; the history of the relationship between architects and structural engineers; the tectonic of architectural solutions; the use of new materials; timber structures, among others. This set of book and multimedia device is intended for a global readership of researchers and practitioners, including architects, structural and construction engineers, builders and building consultants, constructors, material suppliers and product manufacturers, and other professionals involved in the design and realization of architectural, structural and infrastructural projects.

Radical Tectonics

Author : Annette W. LeCuyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500282663
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Radical Tectonics written by Annette W. LeCuyer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a tendency toward formalism returns to architecture, a number of practitioners are investigating the outer limits of tectonic expression. Vanguard architects are extending the boundaries of conventional construction to respond specifically to programmatic and site requirements. Capturing this dynamic work, Radical Tectonics presents four practices whose buildings push poetic construction to new extremes. All in their own way and according to local sensibility and conditions, Gunther Behnisch (Stuttgart), Enric Miralles (Barcelona), Patkau Architects (Vancouver), and Mecanoo (Delft) focus on the art of construction and innovative craftsmanship. From Behnisch's contextual awareness of particular social and political environments to Miralles's building as land form, from Patkau's funky vernacular to Mecanoo's playful manipulation of program and landscape, these studies confront architecture's very nature with vigor and provocation. The work in Radical Tectonics champions the ingenuity of craft and the exploration of surface form and creative expression to set new benchmarks of spatial complexity for the twenty-first century. 4 X 4: a new series on contemporary international architecture. Each title includes: 4 concise architect profiles 16 influential projects a reference section

Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes

Author : Lynn R. Sykes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546874
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes written by Lynn R. Sykes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth’s outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain why earthquakes and volcanoes occur in some places and not others. Lynn R. Sykes played a key role in the birth of plate tectonics, conducting revelatory research on earthquakes. In this book, he gives an invaluable insider’s perspective on the theory’s development and its implications. Sykes combines lucid explanation of how plate tectonics revolutionized geology with unparalleled personal reflections. He entered the field when it was on the cusp of radical discoveries. Studying the distribution and mechanisms of earthquakes, Sykes pioneered the identification of seismic gaps—regions that have not ruptured in great earthquakes for a long time—and methods to estimate the possibility of quake recurrence. He recounts the various phases of his career, including his antinuclear activism, and the stories of colleagues around the world who took part in changing the paradigm. Sykes delves into the controversies over earthquake prediction and their importance, especially in the wake of the giant 2011 Japanese earthquake and the accompanying Fukushima disaster. He highlights geology’s lessons for nuclear safety, explaining why historic earthquake patterns are crucial to understanding the risks to power plants. Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes is the story of a scientist witnessing a revolution and playing an essential role in making it.

Portico

Author :
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Portico written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Futures

Author : Tim Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134499914
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Urban Futures written by Tim Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century. Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology in brownfield sites in the USA, post-industrial urban landscapes, post-industrial economics, tourism and cultural planning. The book allows each writer to state their own conclusions, but together they suggest that tomorrow's cities will, while remaining locations of difference and contestation, be rapidly evolving systems in which dwellers assume increasing responsibilities and power.

Architecture and Silence

Author : Christos P. Kakalis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042979519X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Silence written by Christos P. Kakalis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process. Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge. In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience.

Tectonic Affects in Contemporary Architecture

Author : Yonca Hurol
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152758822X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Tectonic Affects in Contemporary Architecture by : Yonca Hurol

Download or read book Tectonic Affects in Contemporary Architecture written by Yonca Hurol and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tectonics is an old, ontological concept which simultaneously claims to cover the aesthetics/meaning and the technological/technical in architecture. However, since the advent of ‘modernity’, the relationship between architecture and building technology has been problematic. Some of these problems, which are reflected in the theories of architecture and tectonics, relate to the separation of the technology/technical dimension from the aesthetic/artistic, rendering one of them dominant over the other. This book explores the tectonic affects in architecture because these do not separate building technology and aesthetics or meaning. Affects are preconscious aesthetic feelings which can cause meanings if we start thinking about these affects. The book claims that tectonic affects can generate aesthetic value and meaning. It adopts a practical position towards architectural aesthetics and meaning, and concentrates on tectonic affects.

Salman Rushdie's Cities

Author : Vassilena Parashkevova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441148647
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Salman Rushdie's Cities by : Vassilena Parashkevova

Download or read book Salman Rushdie's Cities written by Vassilena Parashkevova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo, the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact with and transform each other. The book situates Rushdie's cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts, to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms - earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.

Ecology

Author : S. C. Santra
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788185880488
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Ecology written by S. C. Santra and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years much has been said and written about the science of Ecology at all levels in our educational system. The study of Ecology occupies an important place in the science curriculum, if only because being concerned with all aspects of life, it impinges closely on man himself. The outstanding claim of Ecology as a branch of study is that it is concerned with living things as they really are, occupying a diversity of places and responding to one another and their physical environment in a variety of complex ways. In the present book Ecology-Basic and Applied, various biological and physical environmental aspects were considered within the ecological arena of study.

Geological Survey Professional Paper

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caribbean Geophysical, Tectonic, and Petrologic Studies

Author : Thomas W. Donnelly
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813711304
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Geophysical, Tectonic, and Petrologic Studies written by Thomas W. Donnelly and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary and Regional Tectonics

Author : William Emory Bonini
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813711622
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary and Regional Tectonics written by William Emory Bonini and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1984 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Author : Alexander E. Gates
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816072701
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes by : Alexander E. Gates

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes written by Alexander E. Gates and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in various regions of the world, major quakes and eruptions throughout history, and geologic and scientific terms.

Design for Rethinking Resources

Author : Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031365542
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Design for Rethinking Resources written by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions for the complex challenges of our understanding of planetary resources and circularity, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society. The book offers a compilation of peer-reviewed papers that uniquely connects knowledge broadly across practice and academia; from the newest technologies and methods such as the role of digital modelling, analysis, and fabrication in circular design, i.e. material passports, cyber-physical augmentation, and LCA to the potentials of growing and harvesting biomass materials, engaging waste streams in material production and more, all in context of economic, social, and ecological potentials and consequences. The book is part of a series of six volumes that explore the agency of the built environment in relation to the SDGs through new research conducted by leading researchers. The series is led by editors Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Martin Tamke in collaboration with the theme editors: - Design for Climate Adaptation: Billie Faircloth and Maibritt Pedersen Zari - Design for Rethinking Resources: Carlo Ratti and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Eds.) - Design for Resilient Communities: Anna Rubbo and Juan Du (Eds.) - Design for Health: Arif Hasan and Christian Benimana (Eds.) - Design for Inclusivity: Magda Mostafa and Ruth Baumeister (Eds.) - Design for Partnerships for Change: Sandi Hilal and Merve Bedir (Eds.)